I do the typical Arch troubleshooting, wait a few hours and then yay -Syu and pray they’ve released a patch.
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Reminds me of an alias error in building a package on AUR. By 1am I was done looking for solutions. In the morning, lo and behold, an AUR update revealed a new package released at 3am prior to fix the alias error.
- Web search it
- Read a bunch of technical gibberish and terminal commands
- Type them in
- Some kind of generic error
- Go back to using my Mac
I once had a problem with an ASUS notebook. I think it was the touchpad. So I looked in dmesg and found something like:
“HID something something was configured with flag 1. If this is incorrect, try the command blah blah flag=0.”
Ran the command and it was fixed.
I've never seen such a beautiful error in Windows. And I really lost my respect when I tried to calibrate an external screen on a Mac because that felt like Linux from 2016.
Yeah that's great if you know what dmesg is and how to use it.
No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.
Not true at all. Anyone can simply click and scroll around a GUI to find what they need. The terminal is a literal black box that can't do anything unless you know explicitly and exactly what to tell it.